Comments on: Seagrape Sawfly from Honduras http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/11/05/sawfly-or-free-living-hemipteran-from-honduras/ Are we experts yet? Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:43:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Karen http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/11/05/sawfly-or-free-living-hemipteran-from-honduras/comment-page-1/#comment-22886 Karen Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:57:19 +0000 http://www.whatsthatbug.com/?p=21708#comment-22886 Thank you for your comments. With the help of both Eric Eaton and Dave Smith (research entomologist retired from the Smithsonian), I now have the identification for this sawfly. Here is Dave Smith's comment: Argidae: A sawfly, Sericoceros mexicanus (Kirby). For a good article on this, see: Ciesla, W. M. 2002. Observations on the life history and habits of a tropical sawfly, Sericoceros mexicanus (Kirby) (Hymenoptera: Argidae) on Roatan Island, Honduras. The Forestry Chronicle 78(4): 515-521. The plant must be seagrape, Coccoloba uvifera. Females lay eggs in clusters on the leaf, and stand guard over the eggs until they die. Larvae feed on the leaf edges. Sericoceros mexicanus occurs from southern Mexico to Panama. Other species of the genus are found from Mexico to S. Amer. and in Puerto Rico. Thank you for your comments. With the help of both Eric Eaton and Dave Smith (research entomologist retired from the Smithsonian), I now have the identification for this sawfly. Here is Dave Smith’s comment:

Argidae: A sawfly, Sericoceros mexicanus (Kirby). For a good article on this, see:
Ciesla, W. M. 2002. Observations on the life history and habits of a tropical sawfly, Sericoceros mexicanus (Kirby) (Hymenoptera: Argidae) on Roatan Island, Honduras. The Forestry Chronicle 78(4): 515-521.
The plant must be seagrape, Coccoloba uvifera. Females lay eggs in clusters on the leaf, and stand guard over the eggs until they die. Larvae feed on the leaf edges. Sericoceros mexicanus occurs from southern Mexico to Panama. Other species of the genus are found from Mexico to S. Amer. and in Puerto Rico.

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